It's very much spreadsheet baseball. There's little graphical oomph to it and not really any personality either. It's a really good baseball sim but these days I compare every sports type sim to either NBA 2k Live (whatever the latest version is), Madden or Football Manager. The first two have the shiney, the last one has the personality on top of strategy and spreadsheet-y goodness.

Not exactly surprising, but still sad. There were a ton of great ideas in there buried under a mountain of implementation issues. I LOVE the idea of FPS Dota, I hope the fate of Battleborn doesn't scare other companies from trying it again. The whole "PvE with crazy FPS characters" concept is one I really like, too, was probably the best thing about the game to me.

That game, unfortunately, would have struggled a bit even if they hadn't had the gaming industry's most unfortunate timing ever, accidentally waltzing into the ring right as Blizzard throws in its juggernaut a-game and the frustrations and worldbuilding of years of repurposed franchise work.

So I guess Fractured But Whole (South Park) comes out today. Supposedly as good or better than Stick of Truth, so day one purchase for me. If I can figure out which system I want it one (PC or PS4?) I might hurry up and pre-order to get Towlie as my buddy!

For the record, Stick of Truth is one of my favorite games of the last 5 or 6 years. Decent as an RPG, and basically looks and feels like playing a 20 hour episode of the TV show. Played it through twice, and will probably do so again at some point. I think you can even a free copy if you order FBW.

Never, ever assume someone that short and fat has their shit together. - Schild

EA Killed Visceral Studio which is pretty much par for the course. Two good games in DS1/2, then EA fucked up DS3, shunted them to a one-off filler Battlefield title, then killed them off. Woo, fuck EA.

"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw

As a bonus, this kills off a Star Wars adventure game by the producer/designer of the first 3 Uncharted games. They'll probably use the assets in some sort of Destiny rip off loaded down with pre-order bonuses, DLC, and pay-to-win microtransactions up the wazoo.

EA Killed Visceral Studio which is pretty much par for the course. Two good games in DS1/2, then EA fucked up DS3, shunted them to a one-off filler Battlefield title, then killed them off. Woo, fuck EA.

To be fair, they had one good idea.

Dead Space.

Fuck the sequels. When a studio is made because they have a single idea, that studios future is already sealed.

I'm excited to see Riot fuck up their next game even though LOL will keep them afloat forever.